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between those of the authors mentioned and those recently 

 advanced by Mr. Jenney. 



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The attendance upon the meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion was less than usual, but the interest and the character of the 

 papers compared favorably with those of other sessions. The 

 provisions made by the local committee were excellent, and the 

 hospitalities extended by the citizens of Madison were graceful 

 and generous. The exceptional beauties of the place and the 

 superb weather lent attractiveness to the occasion. 



In the Geological Section, the following papers were offered, 

 and, with few exceptions, read in full or in substance : Gravels of 

 Glacier Bay, Alaska, with lantern illustrations, by H. F. Reid ; Use 

 of the Name " Catskill," by John J. Stevenson ; Section across the 

 Coastal Plain Region in Southern North Carolina, by J. A. Holmes ; 

 Notes on Further Observations of Temperature in the Deep Well 

 at Wheeling- W. Va., bv William Hallock ; Recent Investigations 

 in the Cretaceous Formation on Long Island, N. Y., by Arthur 

 Hollick ; Character of Folds in the Marquette Iron District, by C. 

 R. Van Hise ; The Fossil Sharks of Ohio, by E. W. Claypole ; 

 Hillsdale County Geology, by Horatio P. Parmelee ; Exhibition 

 of Trilobites, showing Antennae and Legs, by Chas. D. Walcott ; 

 Remarks on the genus arthropliycns Hall, On the Value of Pseudo- 

 alga^ as Geological Guides, Studies in Problematic Organisms, and 

 The Genus Fucoides, by Joseph F. James ; Northward Extension 

 of the Yellow Gravel in New Jersey, Staten Island, Long Island 

 and Eastward, by Arthur Hollick ; Some Questions Respecting 

 Glacial Phenomena about Madison, by T. C. Chamberlin ; Amount 

 of Glacial Erosion in the Finger Lake Region of New York, by D. 

 F. Lincoln ; Ice-sheet on Newtonville Sandplain, by F. P. Gulli- 

 ver ; Additional Facts Bearing on the Question of the Unity of the 

 Glacial Period, by G. Frederick Wright ; Changes of Drainage in 

 Rock River Basin in Illinois, by Frank Leverett ; Graphic Com- 

 parison of post-Columbia and post-Lafayette Erosion, by W J 

 McGee ; An Illustration of the Effect of Stagnant Ice in Sussex 

 Co., N. J., and A Phase of Superficial Drift, by R. D. Salisbury; 



